Exaile.
Took me ages to find a dead simple media player that (i) didn't look like a car radio; why do people pick the *worst* UI in the world to emulate? & (ii) didn't have about a gazillion "features" I didn't want. Just play the damn music.
Regards,
Huge.
On Thu, 2016-11-24 at 17:26 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
I have a large number of audio tracks on my computer[s] which I woiuld like to play occasionally. When at home I stream them from my desktop machine and that works *moderately* well with an Onkyo media centre and also using VLC for Android in streaming mode.
However I can't find anything that simply allows me to select and play tracks (a directory at a time) directly on a laptop. I need to do this when using my laptop away from home and disconnected from the world.
So, can anyone recommend a media (just audio is all I need) player which can do the following:-
Navigate a hierarchy of directories containing a mix of MPG and FLAC files. Play individual files. Play the contents of a directory *once* only by default in a sensible order (classical music sounds a bit silly if you play the movements in the wrong order!).VLC is strangely almost totally useless playinmg from disk on Linux, quite unlike streaming on Android.
Parole doesn't seem to be able to play a directory of sound files, at least I couldn't see how to do it.